Cloud hosting services provider Vultr has announced the expansion of its Seattle cloud data center region at Sabey Data Centers’ SDC Columbia location. A sizable new inventory of NVIDIA HGX H100 GPU clusters is part of Vultr’s expansion available both on demand and via reserved cloud instance contracts. By providing NVIDIA HGX H100 capacity in this clean-powered data center, Vultr’s new renewable, hydro-powered expansion would demonstrate the company’s dedication to helping businesses achieve their corporate ESG goals and meet their AI innovation goals.
Built and maintained with an eye toward net-zero carbon emissions by 2029, Sabey is one of the biggest privately held multi-tenant data center operators in the United States. At its 130+ acre property, Sabey’s SDC Columbia employs sustainable hydropower that would be quite affordable, having just finished the third of up to nine potential structures.
“The transformative impact of AI has created a rapidly growing need from enterprises and AI innovators for high-performance, scalable, sustainable cloud GPU infrastructure. We chose Sabey for our latest expansion of NVIDIA GPU capacity because of our shared goal of reducing the carbon footprint of AI training and inference,” said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr’s parent company, Constant. “This clean, renewable, hydro-powered data center enables Vultr to deliver Cloud GPUs optimized to meet the needs of customers with the highest standards for compliance, sustainability, and price-to-performance.”
Energy Efficient PUE Figure: 1.15
One of the most efficient colocation data centers in the area, Sabey’s SDC Columbia, has been awarded a 100 ENERGY STAR certification for three years running. Its annualized power use effectiveness (PUE) of 1.15 would allow Vultr to increase cloud computing and cloud GPU capacity with renewable electricity in an efficient manner.
Customers of Vultr can now take advantage of this new extension, which would enable them to fulfill their ESG (environmental, social, and governance) targets while enjoying the power of HGX H100 clusters for their AI workloads and selecting clean and energy-efficient cloud GPUs.
“We are thrilled to welcome Vultr to our customer roster as the first cloud computing platform to offer cloud GPUs in our SDC Columbia data center,” said Robert Rockwood, President of Sabey Data Centers. “Given the crucial role data centers and AI play in our lives and in shaping humanity’s future, it’s important that we power them as sustainably as possible. By joining forces with Vultr, together we bring much-needed resources to innovation teams in a way that benefits business, society and the planet.”
